Purpose of this threadLet's lend a helping hand to Schoelje and friends by sharing here our customizations and custom scripts thatmake LMDE (XFCE) work better or differently and which might be of interest to other users andwhich you feel should become standard.Recurring LMDE (XFCE) support issues are also welcome. Think of what you would do after installing LMDE XFCE on a brand new machine.Links to other posts with a short explanation are also valid.

OK, this one might offend FOSS-purists. (However, if you are a FOSS-purist, you really should not be using LMDE. Go with pure Debian instead.)Hence, for the more pragmatic-minded among us:Despite Linus Torvalds cursing over Nvidia, corporate closed-source Nvidia drivers still offer the best performance.However, after each kernel upgrade, you need to install the driver again if you not want to end up with a terminal console screen.This issue alone accounts for many issues posted on this forum.It is also a support nightmare if you installed LMDE for friends and family and they hit the update button...

For me personally, the sgfxi script does wonders. I also see it often being recommended in this forum:

If you mount network drives in your /etc/fstab, you might notice that your computer refuses to switch off completely.This can be solved by adding an "umount -a" line to the PostSession of your window manager (in my case gdm3, could also be mdm, lightdm, kdm).

You should always perform all steps before entering in a script, so the next line in the script using xrandr from the x11-xserver-utils package would be to use xrandr to find out what your display is designated. Your display may go to a blank black display temporarily every time you use xrandr. On my system, the output looks like:

Except during boot on a fresh system the last line does not exist. The first line after the input xrandr command may say that the system cannot get the gamma of the display. If this shows up, you probably can't use this method to add a higher resolution mode. If you don't have the error about not reading gamma, the first line will tell you what the machine you are using says that the display card thinks about your display. The Screen 0 (or 1 or 2) considers the physical connection to your display from the connectors (or internal connections) to your display card. The next line, which in my case reads VGA-1 is the code for the display and tells you something about whether you have a 15 pin VGA connector, an HDMI connection, a DVI connection, or an internal display for a laptop. The display name of the display which you want to modify comes from this area.

The new mode name (in this case 1280x1024) should be descriptive of the mode, but if you simply copy the mode line from cvt, or it has an @ or _ symbol or other non alphanumeric character ( a space?), must be surrounded by quote marks. If you simply have numbers surrounding an x, you don't need quote marks. The numbers are copied from the Modeline line from the cvt command output.